Two-loop planar master integrals for the production of off-shell vector bosons in hadron collisions

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2014, Issue 5, 2014, Pages

  Henn, Johannes M ^a   Melnikov, Kirill ^b   Smirnov, Vladimir A ^c  

^a INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

NLO Computations; QCD Phenomenology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84939501443     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13130-014-8200-x     Document Type: Article

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